The Journal Gallery is delighted to announce the opening of its second Brooklyn location with an inaugural exhibition by New York-based artist Daniel Turner. This is Turner's second solo exhibition with the gallery.

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Daniel Turner was born in 1983 in Portsmouth, Virginia and lives and works in New York City. Recent exhibitions include "Inside the White Cube" at White Cube Bermondsey, London, UK (2012); "Estate" at Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York (2012); "John McCracken + Daniel Turner" at Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York (2012); "Directions: Points of Interest" at Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy (2012); "Bulletin Boards" at Venus over Manhattan, New York (2012); "The Perfect Man II" at White Columns, New York (2011); "Mariana" at The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn (2011); "Four Rooms" at Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (2011); "Expanded Painting" at The Prague Biennale 5, Prague, Czech Republic (2011); "Modern Talking" at Muzeul de Arta Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania (2011). Turner is the three-time recipient of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Fellowship award and is the co-founder of the gallery Jericho Ditch and the artist collective Jules Marquis. He was a visiting scholar at New York University (2009-2010) and has been selected for the Chinati Foundation's 2013 - 2014 residency program in Marfa, Texas.

The Journal Gallery West is The Journal Gallery's second Brooklyn location. Conceived by German architect Dominik Dippelhofer of SchemelWirtz and executed in coordination with Loadingdock5,the 3,500 square foot converted warehouse space will serve as the primary location for exhibitions by The Journal Gallery and will house the gallery's offices as well as the journal magazine's editorial offices.Located at 106 North 1st Street between Berry Street and Wythe Avenue, the new space will be open in coordination with The Journal Gallery's original Brooklyn location at 168 North 1st Street, which will continue to serve as a platform for smaller-scale exhibitions and projects for both the gallery and the magazine.

James Fuentes is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition of photographs by Jonas Mekas. This will be Mekas' third exhibition at the gallery.

"Images out of Darkness" recounts the years that Jonas Mekas and his brother Adolfas lived in Wiesbaden, Germany, in a displaced persons camp. In 1944, arrested by the Nazi's as they fled Lithuania, the brothers were placed in a forced labor camp where they worked in a machine factory. The brothers escaped and were detained near the Danish border where they hid on a farm for two months until the end of the war. After the war, they lived in displaced persons camps first in Wiesbaden and then in Kassel/Mattenberg. Between 1946-48 Mekas studied philosophy at the University of Mainz, the brothers immigrated to New York City in 1949 with assistance from the UN.

Two weeks after his arrival in New York Jonas borrowed money to buy his first Bolex camera and began to record brief moments of his life. Mekas is considered a pioneer of diaristic cinema, his commitment to life as subject continues to this day. "Images out of Darkness" marks Jonas Mekas' first visual essay.

Since 2000, Mekas has expanded his work into the area of film installations, exhibiting at the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Moderna Museet, Stockholm, MoMA PS1, NY, Documenta, Kassel, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the São Paulo Biennial and the Venice Biennale. In 2007, the Jonas Mekas Center for the Visual Arts opened in Vilnius, Lithuania. Coming up Mekas will be presenting a solo exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery, London. Coinciding with the Serpentine Gallery exhibition, BFI Southbank, London, and Centre Pompidou, Paris, will each present a season of film and video work celebrating Mekas's contribution to cinema.

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